A ten-week certificate course in project management, taught from the manager's chair at Fennelwood Digital, a fictional thirty-eight person agency, and Ironvale Projects, a Lagos fit-out contractor whose client pays late. The senior manager leaves and you inherit his projects mid-flight, including one sold at a fixed price before anyone scoped it and one that will close at nine percent margin against twenty-eight planned. You scope, estimate and defend a number; build a schedule and shorten it two different ways with both costs named; level one designer across three projects; price changes against a written delegation that says what you may approve alone; choose between a project that is profitable and late and one that is on time and losing money; and tell a client their launch will miss, with options and a recommendation. Every decision you make is written down with its reasoning, because that is what the course grades.
Start: October 12, 2026 · 11 AM WAT (Nigeria).
Fee: ₦200,000 for this track, or two ₦100,000 installments with the balance due three weeks later.
Format: Ten weeks: eight of lessons, assignments and one live class a week, then two practicum weeks of timed shifts on the track's job simulator. Your track’s live-session day and time are confirmed at enrolment.
What changes when the outcome is yours; the handover you inherit mid-flight and what is wrong with it; the delegation of authority in dollars; splitting a change to stay under your limit, named as a career-ender; your coordinator, your manager, and the leads from the other chair; the Lagos and US lanes.
Turning a proposal into a plan that can be delivered; a fixed price signed before scoping; bottom-up and analogous estimates, and what to do when they disagree; contingency that is reasoned; the single number a client will hold you to; bill rate, cost rate and margin; burn is not margin.
Building a schedule rather than updating one; durations from estimates and named people; the critical path as a place to spend money; fast tracking against crashing with both costs named; float as a budget; levelling one designer across three projects; re-baselining honestly, and the paper Nadia needs.
Assigning work to named people with known speeds; commitment rather than allocation; why loading someone to a hundred percent never works; the developer who has missed three committed dates; the private conversation with no audience and no report; feedback about the work with the evidence attached; costing three hire options.
Margin, burn and forecast at completion; reading the finance sheet as a manager; a project that closed at nine percent against twenty-eight planned; pricing a change order; the change a client expects to be free; profitable and late against on time and losing money; vendors, advances and tranches.
Scope against date against cost, and finding out which one is real; options with a recommendation; saying no and keeping the account; why managers over-promise; a renewal with a slip in its history and a fifteen percent discount ask; the line between managing a client and selling to one; recovering a relationship after a miss.
The build that will miss by three weeks, costed three ways and delivered by you; a person who is failing after feedback has not worked; the vendor who stops answering with a migration window eleven days out; an architecture disagreement that is your call; client data when you are the one who can authorise access.
Commercial close, final invoice and final margin; handover and warranty; lessons that change the next project; the manager's portfolio of decisions and what happened next; the PMP outline and the experience requirement stated plainly; the Lagos and US markets honestly; what a programme manager and a delivery lead do.
Plan for a computer, headset, reliable internet, a quiet practice space, and time for assignments. Review the student handbook for assessment, access, and policy details before payment.
Issued by SchoolRegistry Academy when the track’s assessment requirements are met. It is not third-party accreditation and does not promise job placement.
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